According to theMIT admissions statisticsfor the Class of 2028,applicants who applied early action had a fairly significant advantage over students who applied at the regular deadline(a 5.3% acceptance rate for early action applicants vs a 2.6% acceptance rate for regular action applicants + those ...
The staff at the student newspaper never answered my e-mail or showed up and the New York Times called my house at the last minute to say that they had to pull their journalists off to cover the breaking "asteroid is going to destroy Earth in 2028" story. But word of the event leaked...